And what a night it was.... I started word and typed the beggining of a trip report (the only thing I managed to type was, Holy Fuck!!), and then put on some of my favorite tunes, sat on the couch (dimmed the lgihts) and waited for the unkown. I worked yesterday morning and had eaten supper once I got home, had a shower, then I ate my mushies chewing very very well, followed by a glass of OJ. I would actually recomend this for a first trip however just be aware it will come on very slowly and take longer than expected.
Like I said earlier 45 minutes in I only had a medium body high, no visual stimulation with eyes open or closed. I kept thinking over and over again, omg what if the vendor sold me just regular ol mushies and these aren't magical at all. Or what if I dried and stored them improperly and their is little to no potency. About an hour to an hour and 15 minutes in I just felt stoned, but noticed as I stared at my blanket, it appeared as it was breathing, with my breath. (I dismissed this to the placebo effect.) I remember reading so many posts that said things like "boy was I wrong" and "I thought that was intense but the trip was only beggining", sure enough I was very very wrong.
First the visuals started, and they came very very slowly more intense. I spent from 10 to 11 sitting on my couch listening to tunes and just staring at walls, at pictures, at my guitars, but still nothing looked odd enough to say that I was tripping for sure. Slight bending, breathing on some objects. Still I worried about the potency and thought that maybe I should injest more. That would have of course, been a terribe idea.
Then the effects really started to hit me. One of my CD's stopped playing but I continued to sit and stare, and now noticed, incredibly, how all my thoughts created sounds in my head, which then echoed intensly. Once I realised I was actually tripping I was in pure ectasy, I couldn't get enough of how ridiculous everything looked, how my hands looked, how the coffee table moved in and out with itself. I went to the bathroom, and stared at my face for a good 15 minutes, as with every expression I made, my face would stretch to amplify that emotion. After a bit that just scared me a little, because a little to creepy face I made so I headed back to the couch, and put on some new tunes. I decided to draw a picture for my friend who asked me to, so I grabbed my pen and began drawing.
It was called the cabin house and their isn't a single straight line in the entire picture hahahaha. It also features an angry sun exlaiming "ANGER" and a flower growing from the earth that says, "Yo man chill out" which is barely legible.
All this was fine and dandy, until I started asking myself, this is obviously a good trip so I wonder what a bad trip is like. At this point I was in a totall and absolute cartoon world. Walls would close in on me, the roof tiles looked as if they were drawn, and would shift shapes and swell and grow, the white tiles started looking like ready to fruit cakes.
This was by far the best, and probly the peak of the trip. Nothing seemed to be normally sized, I was truly in a Alice in Wonderland World. The door to the closest was gigantuous, and walls and objects starting taking emotions. Never once in the this period was I frightened or scared, I actually wanted more.
I remember now when I moved to another room to check the vibe there haha, and I was lying in the bed in the spare bedroom. The computer and light made a certain vibration noise with teh fan and hum of the light combined. From time to time a shudder would start at the top of my head, so vivid and clear, and my entire body would shake throughout. It was the most intense feeling. Also at this time I couldn't hear the music as well, as it was playing in another room, and this created a really cool vibe. Since it was quieter, the sound almost "vibrated" slowly, coming in and out at climaxs and low points. The singers voice at times sounded as though it were directly in my head.
I constantly got the feeling that this is what people experienced when they described the "drug induced 70's". This brought on a plethora of feelings. Mostly incredible feelings, that this state was a product of my hard work and dedication. At this point I started going in and out of bad tripping. I remember thinking to myself, :OH MY GOD.... I never want to be sober again!!" but that mood quickly changed, as I began to get very tired, and wanted to go to bed (it was about 1 am now), but that was impossible. I turned off the lights and started tossing and turning, feeling enclosed and unable to escape, getting way to hot. The numbers on my digital clock bounced and seemed way too far away to be real. I turned the lights back on and grabbed a smaller blanket, and instantly I became happy again. It was at this point I experienced the weirdest and most intense part of my trip. Somthing reminded me of an earlier childhood experience and for a split second, like being electricuted, my entire body jolted and for merely a second, I became myself in my memory. It happened two or three times. I tried to recreate this feeling, but I couldn't. MY words don't even begin to describe how intense it was... I will hope for more experiences like this in my next trip.
Advice for myself and other new trippers: I have no regrets for starters, I am a firm believer in every experience good or bad teaches you somthing. We are nothing without our bad experiences. Although in the future I will ingest at an earlier time, as I became very fatigued and unable to sleep by the end of my trip. I did fall asleep at about 2-2:15. I remember thinking by the end of my trip, "I just want to be sober now..." which is ironic lol. I may also consider eating after I dose next time. To see the effects come on quicker.
*** A little side note here. I just remembered how the lighting extremly affect my mood, and how comfortable I was. My lights have a dim switch and at different levels the lights appeared different colors. A medium level which was yellow, was my happiest state, when darker it appeared brown, and this was quickly associated with a slight nasuea and unhappy feelings.
Mushrooms deserve much respect...
